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On our phones all the users have their own accounts for both Android devices and iPhones. We purchased a "firm" iPad for testing in our different departments. We put a company account on that device. Moving forward if individual attorneys end up with their own tablet device, we'll have them use their personal account. If we end up purchasing word processing software on devices with their personal account or anything else business related, they'll be reimbursed out of their expense account. That's how we're handling it.

On all phone / tablet type devices any software / music / etc. that they want installed comes out of their pocket. We install Exchange email and Citrix (which gives them word processing, email, etc.) so they should have no need of anything extra for business needs. I know we had to fark around with the BlackBerry users to insure we wouldn't get any apps downloaded on the company dime, and we've done similar things with Android. Since all the iPhone users have to have their own iTunes account for sync / backup purposes we're free and clear with them. I think this is something you should have a sit down and discuss with accounting / management and let them know this could become a huge issue should someone abuse the privilege.

To those of you that have users setup their own accounts (which is the option I'm going with since I need to delivery NOW), have you dealt with or how do you plan on dealing with having an employee leave and the need to transfer a purchased application to a different device/user?

Having mostly shareholder attorneys, that's not really something we've been too concerned about. Not that they couldn't still leave, but they are somewhat more vested in the company. Only our attorneys have expense accounts.

With that in mind, in most situations, when someone expenses something that is hardware it is theirs if they leave, this would include apps they've expensed for that device. So unfortunately it doesn't really affect us. There are certain circumstances where this doesn't apply, but that is the exception.

We use a company one for setup, but when we hand them out they create their own.

I hadn't considered entering account info to get some apps installed then changing the account info. Nice, I think I'll go that route next time. Do you find issues with apps updating when you do it that way?

To those of you that have users setup their own accounts (which is the option I'm going with since I need to delivery NOW), have you dealt with or how do you plan on dealing with having an employee leave and the need to transfer a purchased application to a different device/user?

I don't think it's possible to xfer apps to another user. I could be wrong though.

We are facing the same issue. Our thought was to set the tablets up with a corporate email account and install whatever apps were appropriate. We would then kill the credit card with the account and have the user use their own. Any apps they need reimbursement for would go through exising approval processes for reimbursement. This allows us to keep the apps if they leave and to use tools like "droid lost" and AVG if we need remote location or locking the tablet down.

My main concern is security. You have to understand I work for a church. What happens when a pastor leaves his tablet on the table at starbucs to get a refill and some punk grabs the thing and emails every account in the pastors address book a picture of his bare butt - or something worse? There is no way to force the user to password the device, the individual apps, or force an idle timeout requiring authentication. Sure we can use activesync to kill the account, but by then everyone has a picture of what they think is the pastors butt. :)-

There is no way to force the user to password the device, the individual apps, or force an idle timeout requiring authentication. Sure we can use activesync to kill the account, but by then everyone has a picture of what they think is the pastors butt. :)-

With Exchange ActiveSync you can force it to require a password, pin, swipe etc. if you want. You can also set it to lock after idle time e.g. 10 mins, and to encrypt the device storage & even removable storage. This varies from device to device as to how they have implemented it, but it works. Also these options are what I have in Exchange 2010 [Exchange Management Console - Org Config - Client Access - E.A.M. Policies - create new or edit default then set individuals to specific policy], may be different on other versions of Exchange.

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